Either the collection uses dosbox to run in windows or just generic legalese they slapped on everything in which they used dosbox elsewhere, but space quest is prime use for dosbox.

I'm not using it.

Newer releases of SCUMM/AGI/SCI games rely on DOSBox or ScummVM.

Is ScummVM so that VDMSound will have something to work with?

ScummVM has nothing to do with VDMSound. The first one supports playing adventure games for/on multiple platforms while the last is a partial replacement for NTVDM which emulates several devices needed mostly for games.

The main thing to notice about these games is that the copy protection for Space Quest I and V come at the end of the manual come after the instructions for each game. These sections solve otherwise insoluble puzzles. The manual is on the disc.

dnewhous wrote on 2020-08-18, 23:57:

The main thing to notice about these games is that the copy protection for Space Quest I and V come at the end of the manual come after the instructions for each game. These sections solve otherwise insoluble puzzles. The manual is on the disc.

I think the copy protection and the game must be run in the same environment, so thats probably why it brings up dosbox in eula

dnewhous wrote on 2020-08-18, 19:52:

This game works in Windows. Why does the EULA bring up DOSBox? This is not a DOS game. I understand how the EULA misleads. But, please.

The games are run using DOSBox, that's how they "work" in windows.
It's a pretty old version of DOSBox too, likes to randomly crash after playing for a while.

jmarsh wrote on 2020-08-19, 06:16:

It's a pretty old version of DOSBox too, likes to randomly crash after playing for a while.

Why not update?

Nonsense thread. Closed.